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Cartes du ciel réduites en quatre tables : contenant toutes les constellations, avec un catalogue des noms, grandeurs et positions des estoilles, corrigées et calculées par longitudes, pour l'an 1700
Cartes du ciel réduites en quatre tables : contenant toutes les constellations, avec un catalogue des noms, grandeurs et positions des estoilles, corrigées et calculées par longitudes, pour l'an 1700
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early red morocco. The covers are panelled in triple-ruled gilt with the super ex-libris of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (an escutcheon under a crown with a single snake). The turn-ins and board edges are tooled in gilt and the spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with Colbert's monogram (JBC underneath a crown) in each compartment. All text block edges are gilt. The doublures are of red silk. An inscription at the head of the title page reads, "Bibliothecae Colbertinae." The bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery is present on the title page verso, and the perforation stamp of the Library is on the recto of the same
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No chapters. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Addeddate
2014-06-03 19:05:32.979776
Associated-names
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683, former owner; Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904, former owner